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5.10
LAMENTATIONS
- Because of the burning heat of famine.
- 11They have ravished the women in Zion,
- The maidens in the cities of Judah.
- 12Princes are hanged up by their hand;
- The faces of elders are not honoured.
- 13The young men have borne the mill,
- And the children have stumbled under the wood.
- 14The elders have ceased from the
- The young men from their music.
- 15The joy of our heart is ceased;
- Our dance is turned into mourning.
- 16The crown is fallen from our head;
- Woe unto us! for we have sinned.
- 17For this our heart is faint,
- For these things our eyes are dim;
- 18For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate,
- The foxes walk upon it.
- 19Thou, O Lord, art enthroned for ever,
- Thy throne is from generation to generation.
- 20Wherefore dost Thou forget us for ever,
- And forsake us so long time?
- 21Turn Thou us unto Thee, Lord, and we shall be turned;
- Renew our days as of old.
- 22Thou canst not have utterly rejected us,
- And be exceeding wroth against us!
- Turn Thou us unto Thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned;
Renew our days as of old.
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